Maybe there was a rumor going around.It would be funny if HTS was down for renovation, and then, when the staff was putting back up the missions, the coder for this mission was half-asleep and used 1024-bit RSA on the password instead of a hash.

W1ggl3s wrote:Can I PM someone, or do you have an online solution for me?

There is no online solution, it's not about following steps, it's about acquiring knowledge. In that light: I will wait a day, last two times you posted you found the answer yourself. Try that again, if you can't find it out after one day, you may PM me.

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cyberdrain wrote:Can I PM someone, or do you have an online solution for me?

There is no online solution, it's not about following steps, it's about acquiring knowledge. In that light: I will wait a day, last two times you posted you found the answer yourself. Try that again, if you can't find it out after one day, you may PM me.

I meant an online solution as in a web-based tool I could use. I saw a lot of people mentioning using Cain and Abel, but using a Chrome OS (which is based off of linux) and a straight up Linux rig makes C&A unavailable to me unless I want to set up a VM. Which I could do, but didn't want to, to JUST use C&A. Plus I've been trying to avoid tools as much as possible because I think it takes the actual "learning" part away from it all.

Sure you could learn how to use these tools, but you're basically blindly pushing buttons and the tools are doing the work. I'd rather figure out how to do it manually, if possible, and at the very least understand what the tools are doing.

I was able to find a mind numbing algorithm and an online tool to help me complete this in the wee hours of the morning.

Thanks for the offer Cyberdrain, but you were right to wait, I got it. However I'd still like to PM to ask a question that may be a spoiler if posted here, if that's ok.

This one was very frustrating for me. I had the hash, but could not get a tool to work. I was on my debian platform. I tried lcrack and tried John. No results. Lcrack kept running and running and running... John is not the pro edition.

I also could not get hashcat to install properly.

I finally went to windows (grrrr), installed Cain and wahla!! Problem was solved.

This is one I will keep working on in Debian to find a way to solve it using hashcat.